March 2009
in work, lunched and email dealt with, feeling much better.
Spent most of day in bed shaking a cold, now scratch building rockets with my boy
still feeling ill, early to bed I think
ill, but writing anyway
Nice morning in Wanstead, now lunching
finished a chapter this morning, yay me. Off with my family for the rest of the day
now in pret opposite BL, as it closes at 5 and using their free for an hour wifi, clever avoids cafe as office problem.
Pleased my bl locker room number game worked out, got keys 64 128 256 512 in order #geek
last day in the British Library for a while, I can highly recommend becoming a reader, free wifi and nice food from next week
Movable Type Release Notes | MovableType.org -... →
Very useful release note history compiled by Jay Allen for Movable Type, will hopefully be properly maintained now.
good day of writing, nearly got a chapter finished, editing the last scraps together now, more feedback welcome though, http://bit.ly/DVTd
How to squeeze decent photos out of an iPhone -... →
Really useful advice
Toy story: The Lego renaissance | Life and style |... →
Now seeing lego from the point of view of a parent and hoping my children can get past duplo soon
Looking for examples of White elephant features in social software, features built that went largely unused. Not failed sites thanks
I’m sure I didn’t order the migraine inducing coffee at pret
Braving the wet blustery dash from pret back to the British Library, peyton and bryne opens at bl next week, picked the wrong week for food
Realizing my instructables t-shirt is ones of my favourites
Last chapter outline from Building Social Web Apps, http://bit.ly/P1yZq writing the application. Comments please, you’ve been great so far
Writing in the British Library again today. I like the 3rd floor science room, a great place to work.
Going to Twitter #devnest tonight with my author hat on looking for more material for my book Building Social Web Apps http://bit.ly/DVTd
In British Library, finally have a readers card, having remembered all the right paperwork, conducive is the word
Ruby Twitter Gem by John Nunemaker →
command line twitter
Flowers by post - Fentongollan Flower Farm →
excellent mail order flower company, 60 or 100 daffodils
have had haircut, all of us, at home together, from our fab freelance hairdresser
Withdrawing from #barcamplondon6, family and finishing the book need to come first at the moment
Really happy to have been with my parents at the weekend for the Ireland rugby win, they’d been waiting a long time for it
Into London for day one of a whole week of writing, aiming to finish the draft this week
Landed in Belfast, cool and a bit foggy here
Got a front row seat on easyjet to Belfast, looks like it’ll be a lovely day
Racing through a delighfully foggy Essex on my way to Stansted, beautiful really wish I had time to take more than grab shots with my iPhone
On my way to Stansted and agreeing with @andypiper that this is too early on a Saturday
sorting out photos and preparing a dvd for my parents prior to 6:15 am taxi, they are sort of friends of flickr, but prefer “photos” sweet=)
pleased that some long term plans seem to be bearing fruit
loving the iPod like click once, twice to love and three times to reset interface of dopplr places, text free expression ftw
two chapters for comment from my book Building Social Web Apps http://bit.ly/DVTd
and http://bit.ly/82nkg your help very welcome thanks
Another chapter outline to comment on http://bit.ly/82nkg Launching & evolving applications for Building Social web apps, thx
debugging terse perl error 412 messages from MT “precondition failed”
“writing the application” chapter outline will be up tomorrow, I’m aiming to draft all three chapters next week
gluing layers of identity together, hopefully
apparant 24hr cold now on third day, boo, lemsip, coffee tissues and nursery run
apple replaced my iPhone for free, very happy
comment on my API chapter outline for Building Social Web Apps please http://bit.ly/DVTd
might have found a way to make swearTunes collaborative using iTunes playlists and some maybe some sinatra (in ruby)
spoke briefly to someone who had an iPhone, but no computer, struck me as odd, but probably more common than I expect
in work with second born
how can I filter the CDs I’ve ripped into iTunes so that I can play music when O is around and not have the singer say fuck?
